Beg Bounties

As soon as we published a security.txt, we started received multiple beg bounties on a weekly basis. The thing is, that responding to them (regardless what you write) often triggers a drip mail campaign with sad stories of how the 'hackers' are trying to pay for college, or their sick mother, or whatever typical scam story they can come up with. Within days you'll be sifting through dozens of emails, trying to find legit, serious reports. This increases the risk…

I remember when I was a teenager I found a huge security flaw in a website: they allowed to include any PHP file passed as a query string parameter, and that file could be a remote one too. They didn't listen to me and I found that offensive, so I used the flaw to get access, and leave a message on their FTP server. I didn't destroy nor steal any data. They responded by reporting the incident to the police.